Marielle, I am not aware of a limitation on orientations in TRNBuild but I would highly recommend simplifying your building as much as you can or at least start with a few orientations and then add more instead of starting with a whole lot of them. For the external shading by far away objects, Type67 is the one to use (Type67 is just an improved version of Type68). I would recommend skimming the 05-Mathematical Description of the Type to understand what it is trying to do. There is also an example in the ..\Trnsys16_1\Examples\Shading directory. Kind regards, David Marielle van Wanum wrote: Dear trnys-15 users, -- *********************************************************************** Thermal Energy System Specialists (TESS), LLC David BRADLEY 22 N. Carroll Street - Suite 370 Partner Madison, WI 53703 USA P: +1.608.274.2577 F: +1.608.278.1475 E-mail: bradley@tess-inc.com Web Pages: http://www.tess-inc.com and http://www.trnsys.com *********************************************************************** |